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Originally Posted by Sacha[_4_]
one of the things that seems to have gone by the
board is the concept of "it takes a village to bring up a child". The
'old days' of parents, grand parents, aunts and uncles, all keeping an
eye out for the neighbourhood children, have gone.
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That's one of the consequences of a more mobile society. I have no relatives within 150miles. The reasonable advice to the unemployed to be prepared to move to where the work is has the side effect of moving young families away from the extended family and settling them into an area where they know no-one.
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